Approximately 151,860 people died worldwide on October 28, 1996.
Unusual Deaths in 1996
Sharon lopatka, an internet entrepreneur from maryland who allegedly solicited a man via the internet to torture and kill her for the purpose of sexual gratification. her killer, robert fredrick glass, was convicted of voluntary manslaughter for the homicide.
One person was killed by a tiger (named shiva) in alipore zoological gardens in kolkata (calcutta), india when he entered the enclosure of the tiger and tried to put a marigold garland around the tiger's neck.
Natural disasters in 1996
North American blizzard of 1996
Saguenay Flood
Willamette Valley Flood of 1996
People who died on October 28 (various years)
2006 - Marijohn Wilkin, American songwriter
2006 - Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer
2006 - Red Auerbach, American basketball coach and executive
2005 - Ljuba Tadić, Serbian actor
2005 - Richard Smalley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
2005 - Fernando Quejas, Cape Verdean singer and musician
2005 - Tony Jackson, American basketball player
2005 - Raymond Hains, French artist
2005 - Bob Broeg, American sports writer
2005 - Eugene K. Bird, German prison director
2004 - Jimmy McLarnin, Northern Irish-born boxer
2002 - Erling Persson, Swedish entrepreneur
2002 - Margaret Booth, American film editor
2001 - Gerard Hengeveld, Dutch composer
2000 - Carlos Guastavino, Argentine composer
2000 - Lída Baarová, Czech actress
1998 - Ted Hughes, English poet
1987 - André Masson, French artist
1986 - John Braine, English novelist
1975 - Oliver Nelson, American jazz composer and arranger
1975 - Georges Carpentier, French boxer
1973 - Sergio Tofano, Italian actor
1973 - Taha Hussein, Egyptian writer
1969 - Constance Dowling, American actress
1965 - Earl Bostic, American saxophonist
1959 - Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary
1957 - Ernst Gräfenberg, German physician and scientist
1952 - Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia
1939 - Alice Brady, Academy Award-winning American actress
1929 - Bernhard von Bülow, Chancellor of Germany
1918 - Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician
1917 - Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg
1916 - Oswald Boelcke, German pilot
1916 - Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist
1900 - Max Müller, German-born orientalist
1899 - Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-born inventor (tuberculosis)
1897 - Hercules Robinson, British colonial administrator
1879 - Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, French writer
1877 - Robert Swinhoe, British naturalist
1857 - Louis Eugène Cavaignac, French soldier and politician
1841 - Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist
1818 - Abigail Adams, First Lady of the United States
1806 - Charlotte Turner Smith, English poet and novelist
1800 - Artemas Ward, American politician and soldier
1792 - John Smeaton, English civil engineer
1792 - Paul Möhring, German physician and scientist
1768 - Michel Blavet, French flutist
1763 - Heinrich, count von Brühl, German statesman
1755 - Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, French composer
1754 - Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet
1740 - Empress Anna of Russia
1716 - Stephen Fox, English politician
1708 - Prince George of Denmark, Consort of Queen Anne of England
1704 - John Locke, English philosopher
1703 - John Wallis, English mathematician
1676 - Jean Desmarets, French writer
1661 - Agustín Moreto y Cavana, Spanish playwright
1646 - William Dobson, English painter
1639 - Stefano Landi, Italian composer
1627 - Jahangir, Mughal Emperor of India
1568 - Ashikaga Yoshihide, Japanese shogun
1520 - Pier Gerlofs Donia, Frisian pirate and freedom fighter
1485 - Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch humanist
1412 - Margaret I of Denmark, wife of Haakon VI of Norway
1312 - Elisabeth of Tirol, German queen
1225 - Jien, Japanese poet and historian
312 - Maxentius, Roman emperor (b. c. 278)
Name
Occupation
Birth
Death
Known for
John Agar
Actor
31-Jan-1921 7-Apr-2002 Sands of Iwo Jima
Robert Allston
Agriculturalist
21-Apr-1801 7-Apr-1864 Rice planter, Governor
J. Carter Bacot
Business
7-Feb-1933 7-Apr-2005 CEO of the Bank of New York, 1982-98
Theda Bara
Actor
29-Jul-1885 7-Apr-1955 A Fool There Was
P. T. Barnum
Hoaxer
5-Jul-1810 7-Apr-1891 Circus showman
Thomas Bayes
Mathematician
1701 7-Apr-1761 Bayes' theorem
Brenda Benet
Actor
14-Aug-1945 7-Apr-1982 Days of Our Lives
Charles VIII
Royalty
30-Jun-1470 7-Apr-1498 King of France, 1483-98
Frank Church
Politician
25-Jul-1924 7-Apr-1984 US Senator from Idaho, 1957-81
Sir William Davenant
Poet
1606 7-Apr-1668 Gondibert
Henry Ford
Business
30-Jul-1863 7-Apr-1947 Founder of Ford Motors
David Graf
Actor
16-Apr-1950 7-Apr-2001 Movie, TV and videogame work
El Greco
Painter
1541 7-Apr-1614 Burial of the Count de Orgaz
David Greene
Film Director
22-Feb-1921 7-Apr-2003 Gray Lady Down
Johnny Hart
Cartoonist
18-Feb-1931 7-Apr-2007 The Wizard of Id, B.C.
Walter Huston
Actor
6-Apr-1884 7-Apr-1950 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Jesus Christ
Religion
c. 4 BC 7-Apr-30 AD Carpenter, evangelist
Marian Jordan
Actor
15-Apr-1898 7-Apr-1961 Molly of Fibber McGee and Molly
Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich
Mathematician
19-Jan-1912 7-Apr-1986 Linear programming
Alfred Kohlberg
Business
27-Jan-1887 7-Apr-1960 The China Lobby Man
Toussaint L'Ouverture
Military
20-May-1743 7-Apr-1803 Led the 1791 Slave Rebellion
John Lehmann
Poet
2-Jun-1907 7-Apr-1987 Thrown to the Woolfs
Morgan Lewis
Politician
16-Oct-1754 7-Apr-1844 Governor of New York, 1804-07
Joseph Lyons
Head of State
15-Sep-1879 7-Apr-1939 Prime Minister of Australia, 1932-39
Mary Margaret McBride
Radio Personality
16-Nov-1899 7-Apr-1976 Daytime radio talk show host
Marilyn Miller
Actor
1-Sep-1898 7-Apr-1936 Broadway actress
Friedrich Myconius
Religion
26-Dec-1490 7-Apr-1546 German Lutheran theologian
Barry Nelson
Actor
16-Apr-1920 7-Apr-2007 Yank on the Burma Road
Nick De Noia
Dancer
c. 1941 7-Apr-1987 First choreographer for Chippendales
Edwin G. Nourse
Economist
20-May-1883 7-Apr-1974 Council of Economic Advisers, 1946-49
James D. P. Ogden
Business
26-Aug-1790 7-Apr-1870 First President of New York Life Insurance Company
Maureen Potter
Actor
1925 7-Apr-2004 Beloved Irish actress and comic
Charles Sawyer
Government
10-Feb-1887 7-Apr-1979 US Commerce Secretary, 1948-53
Beatrice Straight
Actor
2-Aug-1914 7-Apr-2001 Network
Norman Taurog
Film Director
23-Feb-1899 7-Apr-1981 It Happened at the World's Fair
Jim Thompson
Novelist
27-Sep-1906 7-Apr-1977 Heed the Thunder
William Monroe Trotter
Activist
7-Apr-1872 7-Apr-1934 Co-founder, Boston Guardian
Dick Turpin
Criminal
1706 7-Apr-1739 English highwayman
Jack Wrangler
Pornstar
11-Jul-1946 7-Apr-2009 Eyes of a Gay Stranger
Natural disasters in 1995
Anderson Hills Tornado
1995 Chicago heat wave
Great Hanshin earthquake
Heat Wave of 1995 Derecho Series
May 8th 1995 Louisiana Flood
People who died on October 12 (various years)
2006 - Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian film director
2005 - C. Delores Tucker, American politician and civil rights activist
2003 - Willie Shoemaker, American jockey
2003 - Joan Kroc, American philanthropist
2003 - Jim Cairns, Australian politician
2002 - Audrey Mestre, French diver
2002 - Ray Conniff, American bandleader and musician
2001 - Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, British politician
1999 - Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player
1998 - Mario Beaulieu, French Canadian politician
1998 - Matthew Shepard, American murder victim
1997 - John Denver, American singer
1996 - René Lacoste, French tennis player
1996 - Roger Lapébie, French cyclist
1994 - Gérald Godin, Québécois poet and politician
1993 - Tofik Bakhramov, Russian footballer
1993 - Leon Ames, American actor
1991 - Arkady Strugatsky, Russian novelist
1989 - Jay Ward, American animator (Rocky and Bullwinkle, etc.)
1989 - Carmen Cavallaro, American popular pianist
1988 - Ruth Manning-Sanders, author of children's books
1987 - Alf Landon, Governor of Kansas
1985 - Ricky Wilson, American musician; member of The B-52's
1985 - Johnny Olson, American game show announcer
1984 - Sir Anthony Berry, British politician (bombing victim)
1983 - The Grand Wizard of Wrestling, Wrestling manager
1978 - Nancy Spungen, girlfriend of Sex Pistol Sid Vicious
1971 - Gene Vincent, pioneering American rock'n'roll musician
1971 - Dean Acheson, U.S. Secretary of State
1970 - Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet
1969 - Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater
1967 - Ram Manohar Lohia, Indian Socialist politician leader
1965 - Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1960 - Inejiro Asanuma, Japanese politician
1958 - Gordon Griffith, American actor, director, and producer
1956 - Don Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer
1954 - George Welch, American pilot
1946 - Joseph Stilwell, U.S. general
1940 - Tom Mix, American actor
1924 - Anatole France, French author, Nobel Prize laureate
1915 - Edith Cavell, English nurse
1898 - Calvin Fairbank, American abolitionist minister
1896 - Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish nobleman and politician
1875 - Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter
1870 - Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general
1845 - Elizabeth Fry, British social reformer and philanthropist
1758 - Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, British field marshal
1730 - King Frederick IV of Denmark
1685 - Christoph Ignaz Abele, Austrian jurist
1679 - William Gurnall, English writer
1678 - Edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate
1646 - François de Bassompierre, Marshal of France
1632 - Kutsuki Mototsuna, Japanese samurai commander
1600 - Luis Molina, Spanish Jesuit
1590 - Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter
1576 - Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor
1565 - Jean Ribault, French explorer and colonizer
1492 - Piero della Francesca, Italian painter
1491 - Fritz Herlen, German artist
1320 - Michael IX Palaeologus, co-ruling Eastern Roman Emperor
1176 - William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel, English politician
1095 - Margrave Leopold II of Austria
642 - Pope John IV
638 - Pope Honorius I
632 - Edwin of Deira, King of Northumbria and Bretwalda
Norman Vincent Peale, American writer
Brandon lee, son of bruce lee, was shot and killed by a prop .44 magnum gun while filming the movie the crow. a cartridge with only a primer and a bullet was fired in the pistol prior to the scene brandon was in; this caused a squib load, in which the primer provided enough force to push the bullet out of the cartridge and into the barrel of the revolver, where it became stuck. the malfunction went unnoticed by the crew, and the same gun was used again later to shoot the death scene, having been re-loaded with blanks. however, the squib load was still lodged in the barrel, and was propelled by the blank cartridge's explosion out of the barrel and into lee's body. although the bullet was traveling much slower than a normally fired bullet would be, the bullet's large size and the nearly point-blank firing distance made it powerful enough to severely wound lee. it was not instantly recognized by the crew or other actors; they believed he was still acting. interestingly, the incident was almost an exact replica of a scene in his father bruce lee's last film "game of death", during the filming of which bruce lee also died. even more bizarrely yet; the plot of game of death revolved around bruce lee's character, a kung-fu actor, faking his own death - by pretending to have been hit by an accidentally fired real bullet while filming a scene where hundreds of blanks were fired at him.
Garry hoy, a toronto lawyer, fell to his death after he threw himself through the glass wall on the 24th floor of the toronto-dominion centre in order to prove the glass was "unbreakable."
Great Flood of 1993
Storm of the Century (1993)
Virginia Tornado Outbreak
-.-Approximately 149,795 people died worldwide on March 31, 1994.
march 13, 13:37 am, year 1337, nobody died.
lier my friend dead in that day you are a lier!!!
Approximately 147,976 people died worldwide on December 21, 1991.
Natural disasters in 1991
Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak
1991 Bangladesh cyclone
Halloween Blizzard
Mount Pinatubo
Ormoc tragedy
1991 Racha earthquake
Southern Great Lakes Derecho of 1991
West Virginia Derecho